Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-11-18
LAMAR WILL ACCEPT.

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fiat there is a QaesGi0n Abnnt the
disposition OF lac senate to Cenfirm.
Ne@ YORK special, Ii n: Secretary La.
mar started last evening TO a reporter OF
the Herald that in case lie Was offered q
seat on the supreme bench he would ac-
oept the appointment as he creates:
nonor of his life. In referring to the
rumor that Don Vi. Diokenson ,ot Detroit,
Ronld be probably lpYlsed 10 acoept u
portfolio III Cleveland cabinet, Lamar
said he mad no knowledge OF the master,
out ne paid a nish compliment &c the
DeSfoit gentleman. La regard TO
SparAs' resignation, he said thst Sparks
r~asignatlon Will involve no deli ctIop or
abatement from the policy which Presi-
dent Cleveland has established with re-
ference to the preservation OF our public
iandR from illegal appropriation BIZ COZ
| porations and land speculatois. Lamar
then paid q high compliment to Presi-
dent Cleveland as the actual author OF
the land reforms, which he inaugurated
by h:s administration in accordance with
the ~weli-known policy of the democratic
party. AS to Sparks taking credit for
these great achievements Lamar only
laughed. The work will 60 On Just the
same when q change ia made in the
head OF the general land ofis. He said
With considerable vigor that 30 man is
absolutely essential in this government.
rhe president has accepted the resigna-
tion OF Commissions Sparks, to take
effect to-day.
Washington speoial 10; The appoint
ment OF Lamar to the supreme courS is
l ,,nf p.parpuII lie farar34 1 pIth fa Vor Tho
reaction against Lamar within two or
three days has become marked. and it
begins to look as though the kindly per-
sonal feelings wh,eh many senators of
Opposite politics haYe toward him can
not be depended on to secure his oonfir-
nation. There is supposed to be no
politics in making supreme court nomi-
nations, bnt Lamsr's elevation to the
bench Is q purely political moye on the
part OF MIR. Cleveland and will be hailed
with intense delight by the south. Al
ready some of the iudiscrset soutbsrnefs
are Boosting that Justice Lamar will
right many of the "wroogs" their section
has suffered at the hands OF the court !,
In making his judicial appointments the
president has had q great deal TO Say
about getting vigorous men in the
benchmen, III whom there is at least
twelve or fifteen wears of good work.
This talk has been for the benefit OF the
public, for when il came TO making the
appointments Nj. Cleveland has never
hesitated to violate bis own preaching.
In the case oil Secretary La
mar he will ask the SEN
ate Judiciary committee to violate a rule
which 1t has remorselessly enforced re-
CARELESS of the individual friendships OF
senators. This rule le not to confirm
any man for the federal bench who ie
i past 60. Democratic senators have back
ed up their republican colleagues in
refusing to make exceptions. Mr.. La
: maj is in his 6Sth year, but the presiden,
coolty psks the senate to break over its
long established practice to obliee him
: II Lamar goes on the bench the majority
: of its members who have been there f3i
Justices, Miller and Field have served G
quarter OF a century and were not fifty
years old when frat appointed. Justic,
B radIey is in his 74fh year, but haI
: been on the bench seventeen yeera
Ohiet-Justics Waite has just returned n
and has seen nearly fourteen years
service. Justices Harlan, Matthews
; Gray and Blatchford are all younger b,
. several years than Lamar. though the,
have been or the bench for periods vary
ing from five to ten years. Not o one o
"a these Justices but is3good for twelve O
fifteen years yet. OF the whole bench, j
ls found that o majority were eppionte,
u when they were under IS rather thsn &C
But to obllge MIR. Cleveland 1t is no,
:; proposed to take q mar who in not ia
from 70
io Secretary Lamar has many friends
So but SO far acme of these nave been foun,
who could anne case he has srgue'
- before the court OF which it is propose
to make him a member. Inquiry abou
d his legal career in Mississippi is equal
:. barren of result. The prohibitionists G
the country are reported to be alsrme
about Lamar. because be is known t
M hold views hostile to them on the Rres
questions now before the court. The
" are said to be organizing to fight hi
). c~opfirmative and to rely on the help
q: southern democratic eanasors, Colquit
Ia OF Georgia, and Reagan, of Texas, or
their main reliance, Both Ooiquitt an
So Reagan are prohibitionists. Chiefly I
=. hart the republicans OF the north, tt
40 chances are q Thousand to one that the
81 will not oppose Lamsrs confirmation
~. Be will have every democratic senate
and the president will probably dick,
~; With two republican senators. TIL
stS number would secure confirmation by
l37 majority of one, anil as there are son
, 30 accommodating republicans in the Sc,
:. ate, there is little reason to doubt tn
-. this majority can be had.
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